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[por favor]

Every Canadian I have ever met (except one) says "aboot" and "soory." They're all mostly from the Toronto area too. I know this guy from Fredericton whose got a severrrre case of the aboots haha.

[Theagg]

I have had a friend from Minnesota and a past girlfriend from there too. My friends current girlfriend is also American. So I'm somewhat acclimatised to the accent and therefore tend not to dwell on it much.

Of course, a Minnesotan accent is far removed from the southern states drawl. As you say, a wide variety. Its much the same here in the much smaller UK. South West counties accents (Devon and Cornwall) are markedly different from the Geordie Yorkshire accent. The Black Country accent (as it is known here) which primarily encompasses those living in Birmingham, Coventry and the Midlands environs therabouts is officially considered one of the worst accents here in the UK!

sometimes listening to the accents within my own country is therefore more hmm, 'entertaining' than AmericanB)

[Paradocs]

por favor wrote...

Where in Europe are you going? [smilie]../../../images/forum/emoticons/smile.png[/smilie]

Greece, Italy, and Spain. Can't wait!

sympathy4saren wrote...

I live in Lancaster County, PA as well. I grew up in the small town of Paradise a little east of Rockvale Square.

Wow. Small world

Can't say I've been there. I live in Manheim; moving to Millersville for school in a few months.

[vometia]

Theagg wrote...

the Geordie Yorkshire accent.

Oi!  Tyneside isn't in Yorkshire; we tend to look upon those strange southern types with suspicion.

[por favor]

Paradocs wrote...

Greece, Italy, and Spain. Can't wait!

Oh where in Italy?! I just recently went to Venice and I'm going back again for Cinque Terre. 

I haven't been to Greece and Spain but I've been dying to visit for ages.

Modifié par por favor, 27 juin 2011 - 03:15 .

[por favor]

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Modifié par por favor, 27 juin 2011 - 03:16 .

[Druss99]

vometia wrote...

Theagg wrote...

the Geordie Yorkshire accent.

Oi!  Tyneside isn't in Yorkshire; we tend to look upon those strange southern types with suspicion.

You all talk funny though. Yorkshiremen sound like they should be walking a greyhound and complaining about young'uns having no respect these days. Geordies sound like they spend their Tuesday afternoons wandering around the city centre shirtless and drunk shouting "SHEARER!! SHEARER!!" while slowly making their way to lurk aimlessly outside St. James' Park.

[Theagg]

vometia wrote...

Theagg wrote...

the Geordie Yorkshire accent.

Oi!  Tyneside isn't in Yorkshire; we tend to look upon those strange southern types with suspicion.

Indeed, I was being too..ahem..general in my location. Where's James Bolam when I need him to remind me.

[Addai]

Paradocs wrote...

I live in Pennsylvania, so I have that standard accent. What's fun around here is people who know how to speak Pennsylvania Dutch (I live in Lancaster County, but I don't speak that way, personally). The only other accent I use is when I'm speaking Spanish.

I guess anything foreign can be exciting, but I still feel like my accent is kind of boring. I'd much rather have... oh I don't know, an Australian accent?

I'm leaving for Europe in a few days, though; I wonder what types of reactions I'll get.

Pennsylvania has some interesting linguistic oddities.  Old-timey southern Pennsylvanians have a very distinctive accent, I think.  I would guess it is German influenced.  PA Dutch itself is a pretty interesting study, because it's a dialect of old Swabian/ Swiss German that isn't even spoken in the mother countries anymore.  I know that Penn State has done some work on it.

Supposedly there is also a town in Pennsylvania called Frenchville which was so isolated that it kept a dialect of 19th century French that linguists also study.

[Addai]

Druss99 wrote...
You all talk funny though. Yorkshiremen sound like they should be walking a greyhound and complaining about young'uns having no respect these days.

Eee, I love northern accents.  They're crazy, but they're so cool. 

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

I made a laughing line:
Accent is temporary, dialect is permanent ..
Is that true?!

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

What's this accent?

[KenKenpachi]

Druss99 wrote...

vometia wrote...

Theagg wrote...

the Geordie Yorkshire accent.

Oi!  Tyneside isn't in Yorkshire; we tend to look upon those strange southern types with suspicion.

You all talk funny though. Yorkshiremen sound like they should be walking a greyhound and complaining about young'uns having no respect these days. Geordies sound like they spend their Tuesday afternoons wandering around the city centre shirtless and drunk shouting "SHEARER!! SHEARER!!" while slowly making their way to lurk aimlessly outside St. James' Park.

I'ld pay money to see that.

[mousestalker]

Garbage Master wrote...


What's this accent?

Southern (Swedish).

[orbit991]

I watch quite a bit of Brit TV in the states and whats interesting to me more is the shear amount of accents in GB. Many times watching Graham Norton they talk about it as well, depending on where the guest is from, it's almost like every village has it's own dialect.

Modifié par orbit991, 27 juin 2011 - 09:44 .

[Eleinehmm]

Love the thread. I am working in MT and Speech recognition tech and absolutely hate love different accents.
There is a wonderful collection of English accents at http://web.ku.edu/~idea/index.htm .For all  the “I don’t have an accent” folks – You actually do 

Speaking of the weird accents, what’s that
https://rapidshare.c...ple820102-1.wav
Can’t figure the accent, sounds pretty weird, certainly not French or Spanish. Non Rhotic, with strange vowels and  “r” lapses. I am not a native speaker so I can’t analyze people’s accents in English; beyond general features, that is.
Would like to hear both native speakers and non native speaker’s opinions – Just place your native language and country before or after your opinion 
ex: (French/ Northern France /France).

P.S Somebody should totally write a paper about accent recognition in different languages. I would cite it like crazy;)
 

Modifié par Eleinehmm, 27 juin 2011 - 10:17 .

[darth_lopez]

Aldandil wrote...

darth_lopez wrote...

KenKenpachi wrote...

Neverwinter_Knight77 wrote...

As an American, I've never noticed much of a difference between American and Canadian accents, except for the occasional "aboot" or "again".

Funny enough that surprised me the First time I went up there. What Surprised me more is people from Wiscon. and the like I've seen people that sounded more "Canadian" than the Canadian's. 

That's because the accent associated with canadians isn't exclusively canadian, if i remember it they actually have a different accent similar to that but to a much lesser degree, the typical "canadian aboot" if you will is actually an American thing that occurs in the north if i remember my professors words correctly :/

Are you saying that Canadians aren't Americans? That sounds funny from my European point of view .
Edit: No, you're not, you were saying the exact opposite. Don't mind me...
And I missed the edit button as well...

I'm sure you're right though, accents in parts of the northern US is probably indistinguishable from some Canadian accents.

Here's something that has fascinated me for some time: Isn't it the Canadians who actually say "About", while the majority of the English-speakers in the rest of the world say "Abaut"? They don't really say "Aboot", there's a diphtong in there.

Sorry i guess i mis-explained it was really late at night and i've been really buisy lately my apolgies. What i was trying to say is that if i remember my professor correctly canada has a different accent related to canadian raising. But Canadian raising is not the About -> aboot change. The about-> aboot change ( the stereotypical canadian accent, again if i'm remembering correctly) is actually an american thing that occurs in some of the northern states.(in the US not canadas provinces) I don't remember exactly what canadian raising did but i know it's not the about- aboot that would raise the vowel too high.

as far as canada using a dipthong i'm not enteriely sure :/ i know here in south eastern michigan most people say about like ab-ow-t (sorry i don't know how to type in the ipa)

So what i was trying to say is that the stereotypical canadian accent is actually a northern US one, but canadian accent does have raising of a vowel somewhere. i just can't remember where and what words to use as an example.

edit: this is all if i'm remembering my professor right though

Strike that i think i got it all wrong but i was trying to say that canada doesn't have the stereotypical canada accent typically.

Modifié par darth_lopez, 27 juin 2011 - 11:22 .

[darth_lopez]

Eleinehmm wrote...

Speaking of the weird accents, what’s that
https://rapidshare.c...ple820102-1.wav
Can’t figure the accent, sounds pretty weird, certainly not French or Spanish. Non Rhotic, with strange vowels and  “r” lapses. I am not a native speaker so I can’t analyze people’s accents in English; beyond general features, that is.

 

O.o i'm not sure...i honestly have no idea. I'm dumbfounded. I don't think it's a native accent though.  Someone foreign who learned british english maybe? i would guess but I wouldn't know what country they came from.

[Redcoat]

I live in central Canada and I've never heard anyone say the word "about" as "aboot." Some people do, however, say the word a bit like "a boat", and presumably Americans exaggerate that into "aboot." Then again I think my perception of accents is a bit skewed, when playing Dragon Age I thought Alistair's (and Hawke's) accents were mostly neutral, but everyone else I talked to seemed to think they had broad British accents.

On another note, one type of accent that I loathe (if you can call it that) is the accent that 99% of Country and Western singers use. They take a simple word like "him" and completely twist and mangle it into "HIIYAAAAAAAAMMM!!!" Complete nails-on-a-chalkboard effect.

Modifié par Redcoat, 27 juin 2011 - 11:27 .

[darth_lopez]

Redcoat wrote...

I live in central Canada and I've never heard anyone say the word "about" as "aboot." Some people do, however, say the word a bit like "a boat", and presumably Americans exaggerate that into "aboot." Then again I think my perception of accents is a bit skewed, when playing Dragon Age I thought Alistair's (and Hawke's) accents were mostly neutral, but everyone else I talked to seemed to think they had broad British accents.

from what i've been reading it's not an intentional exageration apparently the way you guys say it, when like "a boat", we don't always pick up on the entire dipthong apparently for some reason.

as far as dragon age goes. Wynne, and duncan are the only ones who sounded perfectly normal to me in dragon age off the top of my head. Leliana sounded foreign like french or French English or something. Alistair and Morrigan sounded slightly different. Zevrann sounded stereotypical spanishy like puss in boots from shrek.

[Redcoat]

Well, with Duncan, all I heard was Splinter from the 80s TMNT cartoon.

[darth_lopez]

lmao xD

[Addai]

darth_lopez wrote...

as far as dragon age goes. Wynne, and duncan are the only ones who sounded perfectly normal to me in dragon age off the top of my head. Leliana sounded foreign like french or French English or something. Alistair and Morrigan sounded slightly different. Zevrann sounded stereotypical spanishy like puss in boots from shrek.

The funny thing about Duncan is that Pete Renaday is (southern) American, and he also does commercials in the US using more or less Duncan voice, which does not sound British to me so much as 1940s radio announcer.  In all the old films and newsreels, people have this weird affected accent.

[darth_lopez]

Addai67 wrote...

darth_lopez wrote...

as far as dragon age goes. Wynne, and duncan are the only ones who sounded perfectly normal to me in dragon age off the top of my head. Leliana sounded foreign like french or French English or something. Alistair and Morrigan sounded slightly different. Zevrann sounded stereotypical spanishy like puss in boots from shrek.

The funny thing about Duncan is that Pete Renaday is (southern) American, and he also does commercials in the US using more or less Duncan voice, which does not sound British to me so much as 1940s radio announcer.  In all the old films and newsreels, people have this weird affected accent.

for a southerner he sounds distinctly northern i'm quite confused now. Did he grow up in the north or something or just likes the northern accent?

[Addai]

darth_lopez wrote...

for a southerner he sounds distinctly northern i'm quite confused now. Did he grow up in the north or something or just likes the northern accent?

I'm sure he could do a southern drawl easily.  He seems to be southern French- IMDB says his real name is Pierre Renoudet.

With these voice actors, who knows what they consider their "real" accent?  Maybe they just wake up in the morning and pick one.  lol